University Delaware 20th century not warmest, researchers find
| University Delaware 20th century not warmest, researchers find | |
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| Link | http://www.udel.edu/PR/UDaily/2003/legates041003.html |
| Climate Change | Yes |
| Human Cause | No |
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| Affiliation | University Delaware |
| Sponsors | NASA, NOAA, USAF, American Petroleum Institute |
| Date | 2012/04/23 |
Author Organization Affiliation=University Delaware Sponsors=NASA, NOAA, USAF, American Petroleum Institute
| Introduction | A review of more than 200 climate studies led by researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has determined that the 20th century was neither the warmest century nor the century with the most extreme weather of the past 1,000 years. |
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| Description | According to the paper, while 20th-century temperatures are much higher than in the Little Ice Age period, many parts of the world show the medieval warmth to be greater than that of the 20th century.
Smithsonian astronomers Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas, with co-authors Legates and Craig Idso and Sherwood Idso of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, compiled and examined results from more than 240 research papers published by thousands of researchers over the past four decades. Their report, covering a multitude of geophysical and biological climate indicators, provides a detailed look at climate changes that occurred in different regions around the world over the last 1,000 years. The study–funded by NASA, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the American Petroleum Institute–will be published in the Energy and Environment journal. A shorter paper by Soon and Baliunas appeared in the Jan. 31 issue of the Climate Research journal. |